SmartList QuickStart
====================

Before creating mailing lists, we have to tell our MTA that "list" is
going to be a "trusted user". The way of doing this depends on the MTA we
are using. For example, if we are using the Debian sendmail package and
our /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file says:

FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl

then it is just a matter of adding `list' (without the quotes)
on a single line in /etc/mail/sendmail.ct.


In short, to create mailing lists, you have to do the following:

*) Execute these commands:

cd /var/list
su list
.bin/createlist <listname>

*) add these lines to /etc/aliases:

<listname>: "|/var/list/.bin/flist <listname>"
<listname>-request: "|/var/list/.bin/flist <listname>-request"

where <listname> is the name of the list (for example, `debian-user').

*) Customize your list by editing /var/list/<listname>/rc.custom.
In particular, uncomment and define the X_COMMAND_PASSWORD line, so
that you will be the only person allowed to maintain the list remotely.

*) If your list is moderated, don't forget to define a suitable value
for the moderator_PASSWORD variable in rc.custom.

*) run newaliases.

*) zless Manual.gz, this was only a QuickStart :-)

While reading the manual(s), please note that the Debian version of
smartlist (i.e. this package) by default uses symlinks from the lists
directories to the .etc and .bin directories instead of hardlinks.
This is so that dpkg can update the conffiles in .etc properly when
the package is upgraded without creating a real mess.


Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>
